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THE DRAW
The Draw is a website of writing that is often about tennis.
On Stardom
We mark eras of tennis by their stars. This has placed women’s tennis in a predicament over the last two years, because the sport has...
Orange Crush
It’s late May and hot out and lately I’ve been thinking about a specific weekend in 2008. This happens to me every year during tennis’s...
Thundercloud
“Roger Federer is showing that the speed and strength of today’s pro game are merely its skeleton, not its flesh. He has, figuratively...
The Winner is the Math
Enjoyment isn’t the right word, is it, for the feeling of watching that same thing happen again. After four-plus hours of spectacular...
On Inevitability
While it feels like this era of men’s tennis has no ending, I do think it has a distinct point of origin. April 3, 2005, the championship...
Reopening
This is when I disengaged: January 13, 2020, during the qualifying rounds of an Australian Open that shouldn’t have been played....
Full Bloom
Today, the feeling of a vibrant stage light humming to life. Every so often in the unending grind of the professional tour, circumstances...
The Garden Beyond the Gates
It’s not about the money. Richard the tour guide would repeat this refrain frequently, even though no one ever argued the point with him....
More
Now that every week feels like a year, it can be a bit vertigo-inducing to remember that the U.S. Open happened fairly recently. Remember...
Oz
It’s dark out. We’re all knee-deep in one seasonal-affective thing or another, fresh off the holiday stretch where each of us had either...
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